... CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The weekly meeting of the Board was held on Satur- day. Mr. K W. Oavid presided, and there were present Messrs W. Ale«u,!e and J Pride (vice-chairmen), P. Bird, J Cory. hi. J. Paine, ALD., C. French, 1. V. Yorath, Rev. C. Lewis, &c. The Master's r,ort snowed that there had been o2 admissions to the House during the week, 43 discharge*, one birth, and two deaths, the ...

... Monday was the annual brewsters' sessions at Llan- daff, and the magistrates present were Messrs. E. W. David, C. H. Page, and E. S. Hill. The court was crowded throughout the day, and additional interest was imparted to the proceedings, inasmuch as this was the first occasion upon which the magistrates have exercised their licensing functions under the new Act. The justices renewed the ...

... The Bishop of Ripon has been suddenly summoned to Germany by the alarming illness of his son. Sir Edwin Landseer is slowly recovering from his late severe illness. Miss Nelly Grant, the daughter of the Presi- lent of the United States, arrived at Vienna on the 27th. Mr. Hedderwick, editor of the Glasgow Citizen, a at the head of a movement for raising a monument to Burns in Glasgow by shilling ...

... RHYMNEY. BAPTIST MEETINGS.—The quarterly meetings of the Baptist denominat:on of Monmouthshire were held at Penuel chapel, in this place, on Tuesday and Wechiesday last The Conference commenced at 2.30 p.m., wiien a goodly number of ministers from various parts of the county were present on the occasion. Among other im- portant matters deliberated upon, the following resolu- tions were ...

... LLANDAFF. THE FRAIL SISTERHOOD.—At' the weekly Petty Ses- sions on Monday, Messrs. C. W. David (mayor of Cardiff), and H. J. Evans on the bench, Margaret Dawkins was charged with being a prostitute and behaving in a riotous manner at Union-street, Canton, at one o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 19th inst. P.C. 178, proved the charge. Defendant denied the truthfulness of the con- stable's ...

... The Indian Commissioner, Mr. Simpson, has Ie. turned to Manitoba, from Fort Francis, where he had been attempting to make a treaty with the Indians. His efforts were entirely unsucessful. For thirteen days he was surrounded by about 2500 savages, who would neither entertain nor make propositions in re- gard to a treaty. The gold developments in the She- bonda win country have filled the ...

... BOARD OF HEALTH. The Council afterwards sat as a Board of Health in a special meeting. THE WHITEHOUSE DITCH NUISANCE. The committee appointed to consider the rejwrt; of Mr. Waring upon the drainage of the Whitehouse ditch, and the proposed use of the Cardiff sewers for the pur- pose of draining it, brought up their report. They recommended that the Board should not permit any extension af the ...

... A NEW THEATRE FOR CARDIFF. For manv years it has been a subject of regret that a town like'Cardiff should be without a Theatre com- mensurate with its importance and population. With- out unduly disparaging the building which at present serves the purpose of a Temple of Tbegpis, we may fairly say that neither in size or convenience is it wor- thy of the town, and its want of capacity ...

... BLACKWOOD. MASS MEETING. On Friday evening a mass meeting of the colhers from Risca, Abercarne, Gelligaer, Deri, Argoed and the neighbourhood, mustered upon the large field near the Place Farm, lent for the purpose by the farmer. The weather was anything but favourable There were at least 1200 persons present. Mr. John Lloyd was voted to preside, after which the meeting was addressed by Messrs ...

... In addition to the accidents already reported as having resulted from thb heavy thunderstoinis a a i pre_ vailed during last week, wo learn that between 3 and 4 a.m. 011 Friday, the 20th instant, Dr. Abei oUiai oi 4(3, South Lank, Regent's Park, was struck in his a 100m by the electric fluid. The result of the shoe*. Ooen the partial paralysis of the right lobe of the and. we gret to add that ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The weekly meeting of the Board was held 011 Satur- day. Mr. E. W. David presided, and there were pre- gent,—Messrs. W. Alexander and J. Pride 'vice-chair- men), P. Bird, J. Evans, R. Cory, Eli EvaDs, T. Wil- liams', S. D. Jenkins, T. L. Glaves, C. French, J. M. rick and the Rev. C. Lewis. Tue report of the Master of the Workhouse showed that there had been 16 ...

... All the Ministers were present at the Cabinet Council on Wednesday. THE NEW KNIGHT.—Sir Robert Richard Torrens, M.P. for Cambridge, whose nomination as a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George has been approved by Her Majesty, is a son of the late Colonel Robert Torrens, formerly M.P. for Ashburton and Bolton, and was born in the year 1814. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin ...